Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It’s not the sort of comfort they supply there.
If devils exist, their first aim is to give you an anesthetic – to put you off your guard. Only if that fails, do you become aware of them.
The great thing to remember is that, though our feelings come and go, God’s love for us does not.
God doesn’t want something from us. He simply wants us.
Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely, something that cannot be had in this world. There are all sorts of things in this world that offer to give it to you, but they never quite keep their promise.
If anyone would like to acquire humility, the first step is to realize one is proud. Nothing can be done before it.
A Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent.
The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth – the very thing the whole story has been about.
No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.
God loves us NOT because we’re lovable, because He is love. Not because He needs to receive, because He delights to give.
I write for the unlearned about things in which I am unlearned myself.
In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church.
You cannot go on ‘explaining away’ for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on ‘seeing through’ things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.
Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it.
Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.
You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.
Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.
I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death.
If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not.